It is partly fake but it's not about this particular competition. The low roundhouse and footsweep are common in competitions now, not enough videos though.
you are sorting of missing my point... if you have real skills, show them! Not some completely obvious faked demo and trying to sell it as a real match...
that TV event came about after "san da wang"... a lot in the so called "traditional community" thought san da was "too violent" (what they really meant was it was too real and they had none of their own students who could keep up in that arena).. it's a truly sad attempt to sell the fake dream, the ilusion of ancient mastes who show the "real stuff"
they can say whatever they want... doesn't make it true
the issue is that people THINK TCMA is supposed to look a certain way, even when there is ZERO evidence it was ever that way
Go back 100 years and see how those "masters" fought... they fought with what here is derogatorilly called "kickboxing" while the "internal masters" criticized it from the seating a few rows back.
Do you know and/or have trained with any of the pre Civil War generation?? They guys who fought and killed with this stuff? I have trained and knew quite a few... they most certainly hated that sort of crap, didn't think TCMA looked like a Shaw Brothers Movie
Look at what Shihfu Patterson produced.... FIGHTERS, not chi blasts
Good as amateurs but I wouldn't say "FIGHTERS". In Henan I have seen much better stuff but because of face they can just do their real competitions behind closed doors. At their best they are close to average Sanda level which is obviously not enough because of how they have promoted themselves. It's a very easy and profitable business and one embarrassing video online can ruin it all.
Last edited by xinyidizi; 05-04-2013 at 07:26 PM.
Have you ever seen someone get knocked down so many times in a boxing match? Or an mma match? No. Because those matches are real. That "free style demo clip" is fake as hell. The guy wearing black and white wants even attempting any attacks besides his side thrust kick. You can't be serious.